Alabama federal judge Mark Fuller arrested in Atlanta
Source: AP/Montgomery Advertiser
ATLANTA Police say an Alabama federal judge accused of assaulting his wife at an Atlanta hotel has been charged with battery.
Atlanta Police spokeswoman Kim Jones says 55-year-old U.S. District Court Judge Mark Fuller was arrested early Sunday after a reported altercation at the Ritz-Carlton in Atlanta.
Jones said the woman, who hasn't been identified by name, was treated for injuries on the scene but refused to be taken to a local hospital.
It's unclear if Fuller has an attorney, and jail records show that he's being held without bond.
Fuller is a judge in the Middle District of Alabama in Montgomery and presided over the bribery trial of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman and HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy in 2006.
Read more: http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/crime/2014/08/10/alabama-federal-judge-arrested-in-atlanta/13868933/
Justice for Just-Us.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Afraid of using the original euphemism because a certain easily offended segment might get the post hidden!
mikeysnot
(4,755 posts)with the knee jerk alerting for minor things.
DU is not what it used to be. Alerts are being used to silence people who are against personal viewpoints.
mikeysnot
(4,755 posts)and only voted to hide twice, and I was never in the minority on the ones to leave it.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)mikeysnot
(4,755 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)certain groups of people, and your use of it, if not careless, is intentionally offensive. Since you chose to be on the offense by using this offensive word, I'll be forced to alert to your post if you don't remove the offensive word within 10 seconds.
You've be warned!
Octafish
(55,745 posts)A week ago on DU...
Gov. Don Siegelman is still in prison and the BFEE judge who put him there is still a crook.
From his cell at a federal penitentiary in Louisiana, Gov. Siegelman is still seeking justice:
Appeals court to hear appeal of former Gov. Don Siegelman in October
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
July 24, 2014 - 11:23 am EDT
MONTGOMERY, Alabama A federal appeals court won't be hearing former Gov. Don Siegelman's case next week.
Back in April, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals tentatively scheduled Siegelman's case for the week of July 28. But Siegelman attorney Susan James says the case has been reset for the week of Oct. 13.
A federal jury in 2006 convicted Siegelman and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy on bribery and other charges. Prosecutors said Scrushy bribed Siegelman for a spot on a state regulatory board with donations to Siegelman's 1999 lottery campaign.
Siegelman's lawyers say the case was tainted by the involvement of a prosecutor with ties to GOP politics and that the judge made multiple errors in calculating Siegelman's sentence.
SOURCE: http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/34e9be7913ac4d86867111066639c2e8/AL--Siegelman-11th-Circuit
Not surprised my local paper didn't carry that news. Odd, though, that I didn't see it mentioned on DU.
Someone seldom mentioned anywhere good:
Meet Mark E Fuller, smirking in a photo taken minutes after presiding over the triple-jeopardy "trial" of Gov Siegelman:
The Case for Impeaching Federal Judge Mark Fuller
WantedAlabamaDemocrats, July 26, 2012
EXCERPT...
If you picture yourself being outraged, then you have a pretty good idea how former Governor Don Siegelman felt about his 2006 kangaroo-court conviction before George W. Bush-appointed U.S. District Court Judge Mark Fuller.
SNIP...
Fuller was for years, including during the Siegelman trial, a principal of Doss Aviation, Inc.; some reports made him a 43% owner.¹ He was listed on corporate reports as the companys CEO, even after becoming a federal judge. Doss Aviations 2002 Annual Report on file with the Alabama Secretary of State² shows Fuller as the corporate president, with his office listed as 1 Church Street in Montgomery. That just happens to be the United States Courthouse, where Fullers court sits.³ In his 2010 financial disclosure form as a federal judge, Fuller valued his interest in Doss at between $5,000,000.00 and $25,000,000.00; with an additional $500,000.00 t0 $1,000,000.00 in the affiliated Doss of Alabama, Inc. Thats enough coin to get even Mitt Romneys attention.
So what does Doss Aviation do? I will let the homepage of its website speak to that:
Founded in 1970, Doss Aviation, Inc. enjoys over 40 years [sic] experience in supporting the U.S. Government in flight training, aircraft maintenance, maintenance training, into-plane aircraft fuels and bulk fuels management, transient aircraft support services, air traffic control, and other airfield management/logistics services. The company built an enviable reputation in over 50 contracts performing a variety of services for the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, Defense Logistics Agency - Energy (DLA-E), NASA, FBI, and Department of Homeland Security.
In other words, Doss Aviation is extremely, if not exclusively, dependent on government contracts, many of them no-bid, that can disappear if the Air Force - or the administration in power - decides it isnt happy with, say, the rulings of a leading shareholder. (Remember, at the time of the Siegelman trial, the administration was Republican.) The conflict of interest is obvious to even a layman. Despite this, Fuller has, throughout his career as a federal judge, regularly decided cases involving the Air Force. A summary of the reported cases follows:
Webster v. Wynne, 2010 WL 5394752 (M.D. Ala. 2010). Civil employee of the Air Force alleged employment discrimination against the Air Force. Summary judgment granted to Air Force.
United States v. 22.58 Acres of Land, 2010 WL 431254 (M.D. Ala. 2010). Action seeking condemnation of certain real property located in Montgomery County at the request of the Air Force. Landowners motion to dismiss denied.
OSI, Inc. v. United States, 510 F.Supp.2d 531 (M.D. Ala. 2007). Owner of property adjoining Air Force base sued United States government and officials, stemming from alleged dumping of Air Force hazardous wastes into landfill on property. Summary judgment granted to Air Force.
Waid v. United States, 2006 WL 1766808 (M.D. Ala. 2006). Driver of automobile injured in accident with Air Force vehicle sued for injuries. Claim against Air Force dismissed.
Keel v. U.S. Dept. of Air Force, 256 F.Supp.2d 1269 (M.D. Ala. 2003). Plaintiff, a white male, claimed that defendants terminated him on the basis of his race and sex in violation of Title VII, and retaliated against him by barring his access to Air Force base. Summary judgment entered for Air Force.
In another questionable case where the Air Force was not a party, Houston v. Army Fleet Services, L.L.C., 509 F.Supp.2d 1033 (M.D. Ala. 2007), Fuller denied summary judgment to an employment discrimination defendant - which is a competitor of Fullers company. I did not find one reported opinion in which Fuller was the judge, in which the Air Force lost the case.
CONTINUED...
http://wantedalabamademocrats.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-case-for-impeaching-federal-judge.html
World of difference between those two Alabamans.
PS: What a world of difference a week can make.
PPS: Especially for those on the make.
Judi Lynn
(160,211 posts)groundloop
(11,487 posts)And I hope that asshole 'judge' lands in prison for a long time. I have zero sympathy for anyone who commits domestic violence.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)...to men EVERYWHERE, accusing me of being homophobic. I don't know any man, gay or straight, who hasn't gotten "one"!!
snooper2
(30,151 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Uben
(7,719 posts)...until we see fit to give him a fair and partial hearing. Might take a few years though. Sorry judge, you reap what you sow!
Octafish
(55,745 posts)...in addition to Domestic Violence, Fuller is making a killing off war.
The Pork Barrel World of Judge Mark Fuller
By Scott Horton
Harper's August 6, 2007, 5:14 pm
For the last week, weve been examining the role played by Judge Mark Everett Fuller in the trial, conviction, and sentencing of former Alabama Governor Don E. Siegelman. Today, we examine a post-trial motion, filed in April 2007, asking Fuller to recuse himself based on his extensive private business interests, which turn very heavily on contracts with the United States Government, including the Department of Justice.
The recusal motion rested upon details about Fullers personal business interests. On February 22, 2007, defense attorneys obtained information that Judge Fuller held a controlling 43.75% interest in government contractor Doss Aviation, Inc. After investigating these claims for over a month, the attorneys filed a motion for Fullers recusal on April 18, 2007. The motion stated that Fullers total stake in Doss Aviation was worth between $1-5 million, and that Fullers income from his stock for 2004 was between $100,001 and $1 million dollars.
In other words, Judge Fuller likely made more from his business income, derived from U.S. Government contracts, than as a judge. Fuller is shown on one filing as President of the principal business, Doss Aviation, and his address is shown as One Church Street, Montgomery, Alabama, the address of the Frank M. Johnson Federal Courthouse, in which his chambers are located.
SNIP...
Doss Aviation and its subsidiaries also held contracts with the FBI. This is problematic when one considers that FBI agents were present at Siegelmans trial, and that Fuller took the extraordinary step of inviting them to sit at counsels table throughout trial. Moreover, while the case was pending, Doss Aviation received a $178 million contract from the federal government.
CONTINUED...
http://wantedalabamademocrats.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-case-for-impeaching-federal-judge.html
And I hope he gets dragged off in chains, straight from the dock, like he did to an innocent man.
calikid
(578 posts)What a lovely start to my week, and maybe Siegelmans too.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Someone from his same Rove GOP Alabama circle wasn't so fortunate and decided to take permanent leave before trial:
The Strange Tale of a Pedophile in the U.S. Justice Department
Corruption isn't a strong enough word for it.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)I wonder whether something else will come to light?
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Like Scooter Libby reminded Judy Miller, then an imprisoned NYT reporter, they're all connected underground.
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)I thought I read that he sold off his share of Doss Aviation for a measly $14 million bucks, but I can't find that on the GOOGLE today.
Oh well, I do remember the story called to mind the scene from The Godfather in Las Vegas where Michael explains how things are gonna be to Moe Green.
George II
(67,782 posts)...."Jones said the woman, who hasn't been identified by name"...after stating that he was arrested for assaulting his wife.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Perhaps she uses her name or she may have remarried.
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)His mugshot!
I hope he rots!
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Here's how he looked after the Siegelman came back with the desired results:
Alabama Judicial Scandal Could Taint Many Cases, Not Just Siegelmans
Posted on May 19, 2012 by Andrew Kreig
Washington's Blog
EXCERPT...
The Siegelman jury provided a mixed verdict on June 15, 2006. Minutes later, the rarely photographed Fuller invited freelance photo-journalist Phil Fleming into judicial chambers to commemorate the occasion.
Fleming has released to me his copy of the private portrait (shown above). The blunt-speaking Fleming also told me that he advised the judge during the photo-shoot to stifle what Fleming told him was a Cheshire cat smile in order to look sufficiently dignified.
That implication of bias is congruent with testimony by Alabama attorney Dana Jill Simpson, who helped make this case nationally famous in 2007 and then later in the 60 Minutes broadcast. Simpson, at right, was a longtime Republican operative (and now a political independent) who says she worked with Karl Rove and others as a confidential opposition researcher while also earning large sums in the government contracts field.
In sworn statements in 2007, she described Republican plots beginning in 2002 whereby the Justice Department would indict Siegelman with the assistance of Karl in order to remove the states most popular Democrat from politics.
CONTINUED...
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/05/alabama-judicial-scandal-could-taint-many-cases-not-just-siegelmans.html
roody
(10,849 posts)Hoppy
(3,595 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Andrew Kreig
DC legal reform advocate and attorney
Posted: April 12, 2010 04:24 PM
But Kagan, now widely reported as a leading candidate to ascend from her post as Justice Department solicitor general to become her friend Obama's nominee for a Supreme Court vacancy, urged the high court in November to deny Siegelman a hearing. Kagan used technical legal arguments devised with the assistance of DOJ's trial prosecutors.
Since the 2006 convictions DoJ has withstood complaints that include: political prosecution orchestrated by Rove , judge-shopping , jury tampering , lying about Canary's recusal , firing a DoJ whistleblower, and suppressing evidence that DoJ tried to blackmail its central witness.
Kagan's stance already has created strong skeptics in progressive circles in Alabama, and is certain to irritate Siegelman supporters around the country if she is nominated to the Supreme Court. DOJ has requested that Fuller re-sentence Siegelman, now 64, to an additional 20 years in prison.
CONTINUED...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-kreig/siegelman-judge-asked-to_b_534628.html
The great DUer Hissyspit wrote about it back in the day: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8308581
Spot-on, Hoppy. Spot-on.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Meanwhile, batterers go free. Hope Mark Fuller gets his.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)The Obama administration, which hasn't lifted a finger to put those traitors behind bars, instead worked to send Siegelman to prison for an additional 20 years.
These are worse than gangster times.
Delphinus
(11,808 posts)disturbing and disappointing.
navarth
(5,927 posts)And leave us not forget Laura Canary and her husband and the prosecutorial misconduct.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Andrew Kreig
Huffpost, April 10, 2010
EXCERPT...
Siegelman was Alabama's governor from 1999 to 2003, but lost reelection in 2002 when 6,000 of his votes mysteriously shifted from voting machines in Baldwin County after polls closed. "Keep in mind," Siegelman wrote last week, "the head of Alabama's Business Council after my election was stolen was, and is, Bill Canary."
Siegelman argues that Rove worked with Alabama prosecutors in an office run by U.S. Attorney Leura Canary. Her husband is Rove's longtime friend and political ally Canary, who managed the 2002 campaign of Siegelman's Republican rival Bob Riley, Alabama's current governor.
Power Plays Against Obama Nominees
Both Leura and Bill Canary have issued statements denying wrongdoing. To defer to Alabama's two powerful Republican senators, the Obama administration has so far continued Canary in office after she served during the two Bush administrations as the president's top prosecutor in Alabama's middle district, covering the state capital region.
In February, Alabama's senior Senator, Richard Shelby, threatened to issue a blanket Senate hold on all Obama federal appointments unless the Defense Department gives more consideration to the EADS-Northrop Grumman bid. Sen. Jeff Sessions also wields power as the senior Republican on the Judiciary Committee, and thus the gatekeeper for any Obama judicial or Justice Department nominee.
Leura Canary's office continues to make news as federal investigators this month warned state lawmakers that they risk prosecution if they illegally help Alabama's nascent electronic bingo industry fought by Riley.
CONTINUED...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-kreig/siegelman-judge-asked-to_b_534628.html
And Obama kept Leura on at DOJ for 5 years, if memory serves. Thank you for grokking, navarth!
navarth
(5,927 posts)Thom has been on a crusade to free Gov. Siegelman since the beginning of the entire travesty.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)The guy's a whiz, one of the great people from Grand Rapids.
navarth
(5,927 posts)Born in GR but raised in Lansing I believe. Lived in The D for a time as well.
All Michiganders should be proud of Thom. I know I am.
As far as I'm concerned, Thom sets the gold standard for radio talk.
navarth
(5,927 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)OTOH, I was hoping for Federal charges of corruption, fraud and racketeering in connection with the Siegelman matter.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Part of the reason why:
Siegelman Deserves New Trial Because of Judge's 'Grudge,' Evidence Shows
$300 Million in Bush Contracts Enriched Judge's Private Company
Andrew Kreig.
DC journalist and attorney, May 15, 2009
The Alabama federal judge who presided over the 2006 corruption trial of the state's former governor holds a grudge against the defendant for helping to expose the judge's own alleged corruption six years ago. Former Gov. Don Siegelman therefore deserves a new trial with an unbiased judge ─ not one whose privately owned company, Doss Aviation, has been enriched by the Bush administration's award of $300 million in contracts since 2006, making the judge millions in non-judicial income.
These are the opinions of Missouri attorney Paul B. Weeks, who is speaking out publicly for the first time since his effort in 2003 to obtain the impeachment of U.S. District Judge Mark E. Fuller of Montgomery on Doss Aviation-related allegations.
The comments by Weeks come during a momentous week in one of the most controversial U.S. criminal cases of the decade, with public officials and Alabama activists alike claiming Siegelman was targeted for prosecution because of status as Alabama's most popular Democrat. The Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected on May 15 Siegelman's request for an en banc appeal of his case, thus keeping it in the hands of Judge Fuller. Also, the Obama U.S. Justice Department announced May 12 that it wants Fuller to increase Siegelman's prison sentence to 20 years on re-sentencing this spring, even though Siegelman now faces two fewer charges than when Fuller sentenced him in 2007 to seven years in prison.
Siegelman, now free on bail, issued this statement on May 15: "The Bush holdovers in the Department of Justice have asked that I be sentenced to an additional 20 years in prison. The Bush-appointed U.S. Attorney, whose husband is Karl Rove's closest friend in Alabama, joined with the Chief of the Public Integrity Section of D.O.J., also a Bush holdover, in asking for the longer sentence. What makes the request for a longer sentence even more bizarre is the fact that the Bush holdovers are asking my (Bush-appointed) judge to give me 20 years in prison based on charges for which I was found not guilty."
In 2003, Fuller avoided any public questions about impeachment allegations of Paul Weeks, which were enabled in part by evidence that Weeks obtained from a state district attorney who had been appointed by Siegelman during his gubernatorial term from 1999 to 2003.
With the impeachment complaint by Weeks receiving no media coverage and known only by high-level government and legal insiders, Fuller was promoted to the position of chief judge for Alabama's middle district. In 2005, he became Siegelman's judge. After Siegelman was convicted, Fuller sentenced Siegelman in 2007 to seven years in prison amid claims that the White House had pressured prosecutors to frame the Democratic former governor to remove him as a re-election threat. A Republican, Fuller also became wealthy via his reported 44 percent controlling ownership in Doss Aviation, whose work includes training U.S. Air Force flight candidates nationwide and refueling Air Force planes.
"Siegelman deserved a fair judge, and what he got is one who holds a grudge against him for my impeachment effort," says Weeks. "If Fuller had a trace of honor, he would have recused himself immediately. Instead, he's part of the machine that pounded down the defendant. It makes a huge difference to a defendant whether the judge is protecting your rights, or letting prosecutors stifle them. All Siegelman needs to do to win a new trial is to put my 2003 affidavit on the table as Exhibit A."
Yet Fuller has repeatedly denied bias in the Siegelman case, and has said that he's entitled to obtain stockholder benefits from Doss Aviation without recusing himself from the Siegelman case. The judge declined comment this month on a number of questions arising from this investigation. But the judge wrote an opinion in 2007 stating that no qualified, independent person would think he has the appearance of bias. The Public Integrity Section of the Justice Department endorsed that view in 2008 by asserting that no qualified person could doubt Fuller's fairness.
Similarly, an all-Republican panel of the U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on March 6, 2009 that any claims of bias against Fuller are "untimely." Thus, Fuller continues to preside over the case. The appeals court also rejected claims of Justice Department misconduct as either unmerited or harmless, aside from two of seven convictions dismissed for lack of evidence. Siegelman asked for a review by all judges of the appeals court, telling the Huffington Post last week, "If we get a rehearing, then we have a few months to pursue options with the Department of Justice. If we don't, then I'm going to be re-sentenced to prison by the same judge and prosecutors, which I say, parenthetically with an exclamation point, is probably the most bizarre twist yet. I'd be still fighting the same right-wing, (Karl) Rove-anointed and Bush-appointed prosecutors even with (Barack) Obama and (Eric) Holder in charge."
CONTINUED...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-kreig/siegelman-deserves-new-tr_b_201455.html
Guess it's not all that odd that there's no change at Justice, either.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)From the AP version printed in the Augusta, Georgia paper:
Federal judge from Alabama accused of hitting his wife after she accused him of infidelity
By Bill Barrow
Associated Press,Monday, Aug 11, 2014
EXCERPT...
Kelli Fullers 17-year-old son, Hunter Gregg, also was at the hotel.
He told police that he heard his mother and stepfather fighting earlier in the evening as he passed by their room.
He said they had been drinking and described a volatile relationship, telling police this was not the first time an incident like this had occurred.
Mark Fuller indicated in court Monday that he will hire a private attorney. Misdemeanor offenses in Georgia generally are punishable by up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.
Fuller did not return a telephone message left in his chambers.
Kelli and Mark Fuller married after the judge and his previous wife, Lisa Boyd Fuller, divorced in 2012.
CONTINUED...
http://beta.mirror.augusta.com/news/2014-08-11/federal-judge-alabama-accused-hitting-his-wife-after-she-accused-him-infidelity?v=1407803066
Dixie Mafia is Right.
Justice
(7,182 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Neil told her she'd end up in a dark alley someplace.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0412/S00164.htm
What ex-Mrs. Fuller knows could really be something.
http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2010/02/veteran-investigator-calls-for.html